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How Ignorance Insulates the New Atheists

Intelligent design isn't an argument for religion but it, or something like it, would have to be true if any traditional faith is to be taken as true. Yet the New Atheists do not seriously contest the evidence that ID offers. Read More ›

Butterfly Surveys Find Design, Not Darwin

As an alternative to playing "force the data into a Darwinian mold," readers may wish to take part in a butterfly survey -- just for the pleasure and value of getting outdoors and witnessing these delicate champions of biological design up close. Read More ›
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The Case of the Mysterious Hoatzin: Biogeography Fails Neo-Darwinism Again

What's the evidence that primates, rodents, and lizards crossed oceans on rafts? Read More ›

We Get Poor-Mouthed by the National Center for Science Education

To "poor-mouth" means using claims of poverty to try to manipulate other people. Read More ›

“More Philosophical than Scientific”: Parsing a Rationalization

If you want to show that evolution does not violate the second law, you cannot simply say, sure, evolution is astronomically improbable, but the Earth is an open system, so there is no problem. Read More ›

Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Biogeographical Distribution

When the biogeographical data does not fit with the predictions and expectations of common descent, one always has "oceanic dispersal" at the ready to serve as an ad hoc fudge factor -- including the rather remarkable claim that monkeys made it across the Atlantic from Africa to South America! Read More ›

Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine Responds to Elizabeth Johnson Book and Says Some ID-Relevant Stuff Too

"While an adherent of a materialist philosophy would readily agree that material factors account for all reality, this accords neither with Catholic teaching, nor with sound philosophical argumentation." Read More ›

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